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The angle or degree by which the hair is lifted and combed in relation to the head.
What is ELEVATION?
What is PALM TO PALM?
A fixed guideline that does not move.
What is STATIONARY?
Decontamination removes ____ materials on tools or surfaces.
What is INFECTIOUS?
A section or tuft of hair with a strong directional growth pattern that stands up.
What is a COWLICK?
A uniform elevation haircut that provides movement.
What is 90 DEGREE?
The technique where the still blade is placed into the hair and the shears are partially opened and closed while moving through the hair.
What is CARVING?
A slanting line between vertical and horizontal.
What is DIAGONAL?
Bacterial cells that cause abscesses, pustules, and boils that grow in curved lines and shape into chains.
What is STREPTOCOCCI?
Balding that happens over the entire body
What is ALOPECIA UNIVERSALIS?
A haircut with NO elevation.
What is 0 DEGREE?
A cutting technique that blends hair from a shorter length at the perimeter to a longer length moving up the head. ALSO known as fading.
What is TAPERING?
Lines consistently traveling in the same direction at an equal distance apart.
What is PARALLEL?
Harmful bacteria that cause disease.
What are PATHOGENIC?
The muscle located above and in front of the ear that helps in opening and closing the mouth.
What is the TEMPORALIS?
A haircut that uses two or more DEGREES.
What is a COMBINATION haircut?
The technique of cutting around the hairline to create a clean line.
What is EDGING?
A guide line that moves from one section to another.
What is TRAVELING?
A common FUNGAL infection of the skin known as barber's itch.
What is TINEA BARBAE?
A small involuntary muscle located along the side of the hair follicle that is responsible for "GOOSE BUMPS."
What is ARRECTOR PILI?
A circular growth pattern that requires a degree of special consideration when cutting.
What is a WHORL?
A texturizing technique where the tips of the shears cut into the ends of the hair to create multiple lengths, blending within the hair ends.
What is POINT CUTTING?
This does NOT change the shape of the cut, but helps to remove excess bulk or blend LINES.
What is TEXTURIZING?
Hepatitis B virus and HIV are examples of _______.
What are BLOODBORNE PATHOGENS?
The bone that forms the forehead.
What is the FRONTAL bone?